Enfolding me was a familiar, safe something that was…

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

— Helena Bonham Carter

“All that had been trivial, that had been comforting and familiar and safe, now seemed to be strapped with explosives.”

— Louise Penny

“It is also for stepping into the unknown," Claudia said, "when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe.”

— Mary Balogh

I did a ski festival in Austria once. I was struck by how friendly Austrians were, before gradually realising it's more that Glaswegians are…

— Frankie Boyle

Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for a saner…

— Hazel Henderson

Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were…

— Richelle Mead

I'm very friendly and nice.

— Emily Beecham

I think Diana was a very friendly person.

— Emma Corrin

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just…

— Anonymous

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

— Li Peng

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

“Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

— Albert Einstein

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

— Dorothy Allison

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…

— Gertrude Stein